Back off, Robin Hood!

I am all outa breath, both from exhaustion and from HAPPY

My new crossbow target arrived! I no longer have to hammer the bolt/arrows out. They pull out easily. But that is not the Big Story.

I got crazy-bold and set up the target at 50 yards instead of 30. My first shot at the new target: NAILED the "9-ball" right on the number 9! Note how the bolt/arrow is NOT fletch-deep, YAY!.


I had been worried that I might not hit the dang target at all, since my longest shot with my new crossbow to date was 30 yards. So I got froggy and set the distance to 75 yards (225 feet). Used a different side of the target. It is a life-sized picture of the "Boiler Room" of a deer (you can see the white belly, legs, and neck portions). This is what happened:



Then I got sooper froggy, and tried free-standing without my homemade shooting sticks at 75 yards... all the while puffing and panting like an 82-year old geezer running back and forth (fargin target weighs about 40 pounds, and re-re-re-reloading the crossbow is not something you do a lot of before you go out hunting. (*shaky-wheezy*)

Nevertheless fired (*pant, wheeze, puf*) three times freestanding. ALL THREE shots were in the Boiler Room at 75 yards!!



My pussanal record -- bragged about for years -- was 44 yards for a buck with a crossbow. This is damn' near double that.

It would be cooler if you added 5 lbs.of tannerite.

nickndfl said:

It would be cooler if you added 5 lbs.of tannerite.

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Not with what that fargin target cost!!

now hit a moving target. video or didn't happen!

Let's see the homemade stuff...

Newmisty said:

Let's see the homemade stuff...

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As long as we are on the subject of Jacques Cousteau, I happened to come across a pic of the 44-yard deer I got with a crossbow. But everybody has a deer onna wall somewhere.

But lookit to the right on that shelf. See the red coral with the two holes in it? That was given to me by Jacques Cousteau right from the Calypso. He got it in the Red Sea.



For homemade stuff, my shark sculpture is a laminate of 30 thin levels of wood. It is way the heck up on that shelf becuz my cat, Fuzzy Britches kept chewing the fins. I left the chew marks there in memory of Fuzzy B.

PS: Herself and Your Humble Obdn't &tc ate the conch.